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	[quote name="Zsenipoo"][quote]A few years ago I decided to give anime a chance and rented all the biggies: Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, and Vampire Hunter D. They were all a cavalcade of violent grotesquery drawn by freaks with an unhealthy obsession with showing people's faces exploding and splattering in lovingly rendered detail.[/quote] Fussbett was once bemused that I would watch the shit out of The Krays but despised all (other) sadistic movies. "It's because the dialogue is so snappy." I explained. "There's <i>no way</i> that shit is actually happening." It transcends even my black-hole levels of disbelief-suspendin'! Similarly: anime. Because it's.... animated! And fantastically stylized. Fist Of The North Star is cool and L&O: Rape Up Close In Detail With Glistening Blood And Real Screams Of Agony is not cool, and I don't think there's anything rapidly cycling about my position on this issue because one of them is glorious camp in no more than 100 colors and the other one...<i>isn't</i>. Another thing you keep missing: I don't have a problem with <i>violence</i>. I have a problem with <i>sadism</i>. Your inability to separate the two is telling. There's an episode of GitS:SAC first season that made me go vegetarian for two years, if that helps you to reconcile matters at all. I also cover my eyes and ears for parts of The Krays! [quote][quote]Were there sadism in Silence of the Lambs?[/quote] GET YOUR SHIT OFF OF MY MOUNTAIN POSTHASTE. You're either being mindbogglingly stupid or you don't know how to identify cruelty when you see it, though I suppose we could consider that a survival tactic in your case. These arguments always devolve into people trying to persuade me that the sadistic shit they enjoy isn't <i>really</i> sadistic, because they (the people making the argument) aren't sadists! QED! One of the nicest things about Certain Posters is that they don't struggle with this issue at all: they'll make a case on the points that I'm wrong <i>and</i> they're sadists. I wish you would just go with that idea rather than trying to redeem <i>The Silence Of The Fucking Lambs</i> to Zseni - an argument that you are not now, nor will you ever be, clever enough to push.[/quote] You use this word "sadism" all the time. I do not think it means what you think it means.[/quote] COUNTER: no, actually, <i>you</i> don't. There's a definition which involves sexual gratification (the classical de Sadean sense) and one which doesn't (the latter is carefully outlined in the DSM:IV for Sadistic Personality Disorder.) I can't believe that you would float SOTL as lacking <i>either</i> so that means that you're now three times stupider than I originally took you to be: once for missing the sexual sadism, once for missing the non-sexual sadism, and once for expecting me to be wrong about a definition when I score the elusive Free Rice 49 without any aids whatsoever.[/quote]